Elopement/Destination Ceremonies
Eloping is considered to being a last minute decision to get married. More colloquially, elopement is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving a hurried flight away from one’s place of residence together with one’s beloved with the intention of getting married.
Today the term “elopement” is used for any marriage performed quietly. These intimate ceremonies may take place in the privacy of your own home, local park, back yard, living room, favorite restaurant, on top of a mountain, beside a riverbank or in a Marriage Officiant’s home with limited public engagement.
Having a destination ceremony is so SMART to do! Couples take care of all of their legal documentation before or after their BIG wedding day. Whether it be down south in the sun, United States, England, Europe, India, China, Japan, Italy or even Greece, couples would be legally married in Alberta reducing substantial legal documentation in foreign countries, higher costs, time, and stress.
The BIG wedding day would then be either a renewal of vows ceremony or symbolic marriage ceremony. And of course – this special day would be your celebrated anniversary.
Elopement $290
- Within Calgary city limits – includes Bearspaw & Springbank
- Pre-wedding consultation
- Officiating marriage ceremony (up to 8 guests)
- Civil marriage statement (legal component) handwritten in calligraphy
- Submission of completed marriage licence to Alberta Vital Statistics (legal component)
- If location is needed – Tamara opens her home to couples (up to 5 guests) at no additional fee
- Follow-up with couples after wedding day
Destination Ceremony $290
- Within Calgary city limits – includes Bearspaw & Springbank
- Every effort will be made to ensure that we do not take away from your symbolic marriage ceremony on your big wedding day outside of Alberta
- Pre-wedding consultation
- Officiating marriage ceremony (up to 8 guests)
- Civil marriage statement (legal component) handwritten in calligraphy
- Submission of completed marriage licence to Alberta Vital Statistics (legal component)
- Follow-up with couples after wedding day
Fees are payable to Tamara Jones by either:
- Email money transfer (tamara@weddingsbytamara.com)
- Cash
Non-refundable deposit of $150 is required to secure wedding date and time; the remainder of fee is due one week prior to the wedding day. Every effort is made to accommodate last minute marriage ceremonies.
*All fees subject to GST